[plug] The most horrifying hack (How I got the mail server back up).

[Michael Collard]

On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 11:00 +0800, Shayne O'Neill wrote:

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> start it up, no workies. So off a home server I have dovecot on, I grab
> the binaries for the imap part of the server and its support libs.
> 
> boot it up. it all works.
> 
> so now everyone is reading email again, but if my server was my a human it
> would be crying for the hangman on account of such a crime against package
> management.
> 
> at some point I'll find a d

How about using courier-imap? I have been using it for years, its has
proved itself to be flexible and reliable, and it allows plain passwords
via non SSL server :)

Cheers
Michael Collard